ness’s Reviews > Letters to Milena > Status Update

“But this passion for letters is senseless. Isn’t one letter enough, isn’t one knowing enough? Of course it is, but nevertheless I am tilting my head way back, drinking the letters, aware only that I don’t want to stop drinking.”

“so far from my thoughts and everything else is so close, and for the second possibility I have no advice—how could I?”

“nonetheless an event worth celebrating, which I am doing by writing to you.”

“Writing letters is actually an intercourse with ghosts and by no means just with the ghost of the addressee but also with one’s own ghost, which secretly evolves inside the letter one is writing or even in a whole series of letters, where one letter corroborates another and can refer to it as witness.”

Where did my insomnia lead me? I’m sure to nothing that was not very well meant.